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00:00Dear Reader,
00:06In order to understand how the very thought of a casual killing might have permeated our home in the country,
00:14it is first very important to understand the times that we lived in.
00:30Miss? Miss? God damn it, it's hot. It feels hot in here, you feel it? Huh? It's hot.
00:45Oh no, my darling, I call it kind of brisk. Are you catching something?
00:48God damn it, please. Don't fucking contradict me like that.
00:51That's Bill Fosa. The loony one.
00:53I was merely clarifying, which I should not have done.
00:57And that was wrong of me. It was wicked, Harry, and I'm sorry for that. I truly am.
01:01Just a simple clarification?
01:02Yes, I don't think I'm psyched you.
01:03Is that it? That's fabulous, you fucking cunt.
01:05I was merely clarifying my love.
01:07No, no, no, you're a good girl. You're a good fucking girl.
01:10Will somebody please take my fucking coat? It's bloody boiling in here. God damn it. Come on.
01:15Harry.
01:16What?
01:17What about mother? We can't leave her here.
01:18Have her meet us at the fucking table.
01:20Okay, well, she needs help, Harry.
01:22Then fucking help her.
01:23Okay.
01:25Suck my cock.
01:27Jesus.
01:28What the fuck?
01:29Oh.
01:30The fuck are you looking at?
01:31Evelyn Nesbitt.
01:32Come on, come on.
01:33Nothing could prepare her for the fame and notoriety that would befall her a mere hour later.
01:50Ugly Harry.
01:51Huh?
01:52I said this is wonderful. I've never seen a real-life camel before.
01:55No, it's a big fucking camel too.
01:56Yeah.
01:57From an early age, she was a model.
02:00If you can call it that.
02:02Can you pull your shirt off your shoulder, darling?
02:06Lower my bed.
02:07Lower.
02:08Could you hike up your dress?
02:09Hike your skirt up a bit.
02:11Could you bend over and touch your toes?
02:14Poor girl was a workhorse, but it wasn't enough to support both Evelyn and her widowed mother.
02:23I know I'd love to perform like this someday.
02:26The fuck did you just say?
02:28She would marry Harry Thaw out of desperation, not love.
02:33He would put a roof over her head, and in return...
02:36Harry.
02:37Hello, darling.
02:38Hi, you're not meant to be here.
02:39Meant to be here?
02:40No, no.
02:41You're my wife.
02:42She had promised her virginity.
02:43Harry, no, stop it!
02:44Harry, Harry, Harry.
02:45Not, not yet, not yet.
02:46I'm not ready.
02:47You're not ready.
02:48No, no.
02:49What do you mean you're not ready?
02:50I'm not ready, I'm sorry.
02:51You're my wife.
02:52I know, I'm sorry, Harry.
02:54Look, let me just...
02:55Let me just...
02:56No, Harry, no!
02:57Get off me!
02:58God damn it!
03:00Get off me!
03:01I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
03:02Stop it!
03:03Stop it, Harry!
03:04Stop it!
03:05You're scared of me!
03:06Stop it!
03:09Harry, stop!
03:13I'm sorry.
03:18I'm sorry.
03:19I'm sorry.
03:26It's okay.
03:27Forgive me, I'm sorry.
03:29No, I forgive you, my love.
03:31Soon.
03:33Soon.
03:34Sam, say you're mine.
03:36I'm yours.
03:37Soon.
03:39Good night.
03:40Good night.
03:43The only problem, Evelyn Nesbitt was not a virgin.
03:50Not even close.
03:59And Harry Thaw was not her first benefactor.
04:02Good evening, Evelyn.
04:03My dear.
04:05Good evening, Stanford.
04:08Excuse me, who the fuck are you?
04:11Mr. White.
04:12Stanford White.
04:13The architect of Madison Square Garden.
04:15So?
04:17Excuse me?
04:18I said so.
04:20I understood the word, just sincerely confused by the context.
04:23The context is escaping you?
04:24Is that what you're...
04:25Forgive me.
04:26Um, Harry, I didn't introduce you.
04:27This is, um, this is Stanford White.
04:29He's a very good, um, an old friend of mine and my mother's.
04:33He knew me since I was a child.
04:34We're very close friends.
04:35Yeah, you said that already.
04:36You're repeating yourself now.
04:37Did I?
04:38Yeah.
04:39Oh.
04:40And who might you be?
04:42I'm her husband.
04:44Yeah, that's right.
04:45I'm her fucking husband.
04:46Yes.
04:47Harry, please.
04:48Yes, you said that.
04:49Seems you're repeating your song.
04:50You're a smart guy.
04:51Well, enjoy the evening.
04:52Harry, he's not.
04:53He's a good friend.
04:54Harry, come on.
04:55I love you.
04:56What's up in there?
04:57No, let's go home.
04:58Let's spend the night together.
05:00Let's go home.
05:01I've fucked your wife's three cherries on a swing.
05:04Um.
05:05Enjoy the show.
05:06Hey.
05:07Good evening.
05:08You're wonderful.
05:09Absolutely lovely chicken.
05:15You lied to me.
05:16No, I didn't.
05:17No.
05:18You fucking lied to me?
05:19No, I didn't.
05:20Yeah, you fucking did.
05:21You fucking lied to me!
05:23That's what you fucking did.
05:24No, I'm sorry.
05:25Harry.
05:27Harry.
05:31He had her on a fucking swing.
05:34Don't, Harry.
05:35No, no, no, I...
05:36He had her every which way on a velvet fucking swing.
05:38Don't.
05:49What?
05:55Shut up.
05:57Eat your fucking shrimp.
05:59Dance.
06:01Fucking dance.
06:02Play some music.
06:06That's good.
06:08You're fucking right.
06:18I'm sure you're wondering what this murder has to do with me.
06:22Well, everything.
06:24I...
06:25You know, for trusting me on this one.
06:27There will be other deals.
06:29I promise.
06:30Harry sent a note.
06:32What?
06:33Harry?
06:34What?
06:35Harry?
06:36Yeah.
06:37From prison?
06:38Yeah.
06:39He wants us to look after Evelyn and, you know, until the trial.
06:42Oh, God.
06:43You didn't agree to this preposterous notion, did you?
06:46He sent a note.
06:47What?
06:48He sent a note on the, on, on, on Toombs prison letterhead.
06:51So, you know, send a note back on...
06:55...Henry letterhead.
06:56Marianne, Marianne, she's coming and there's nothing we can do to stop her.
07:00He's been a good friend.
07:03Financially speaking.
07:05We owe him.
07:07We owe him.
07:08We owe him.
07:09We owe him.
07:10Why?
07:11Why does everything always have to be so drab and transactional?
07:16Well, cause life is drab and transactional, Marianne.
07:21It's what you do with it.
07:25Mr. Henry.
07:26Yes.
07:27Mr. Henry.
07:28The artist, sir.
07:29He's in your study.
07:31I know.
07:32That's why I told him to meet me.
07:33Yes.
07:34But the thing is...
07:40Jesus.
07:41In the name of God.
07:43What are you doing?
07:44I make room.
07:45Room?
07:46Yes.
07:47There's room.
07:48There's plenty of fucking room all over the house.
07:49Real art needs space.
07:50Real art needs to breathe.
07:51Real art needs light.
07:53Take it easy.
07:54Leave it.
07:55Leave it.
07:56This isn't real art.
07:57An investment.
07:59An investment.
08:00That'll live down in the basement in a vault in a crate.
08:02You're a mad man.
08:08Your turn now, Celia.
08:09Oh, for fuck's sake.
08:10I just sat down to steam my cooter.
08:12What is the debt from your pay for this?
08:14You shall not!
08:15The poodles will more than cover it!
08:17I don't know who you think you are.
08:19Honestly, I don't.
08:20Where is my money, Mr. Henry?
08:24Where is my money?
08:25I shall pay you your money once I have the piece of praise to insurance in the style and liking to the value that we had agreed on.
08:32And then I shall deduct for damages and then I'll write you a promissory note.
08:35No.
08:36I will not take a promissory note.
08:37You will.
08:38I will not.
08:39I take cash!
08:40Compris?
08:41Cash!
08:45How do I know you're not simply a fraud?
08:49Pardon?
08:50You heard me.
08:51You do not utter words as such in the presence of a man that has dedicated his entire life to holding a mirror up to society with his brush.
09:08Yadda yadda yadda.
09:10It's a little bit, uh, breezy up there on that soapbox.
09:16Oh, my heavenly father.
09:19What in the name?
09:20Clean it, ma'am.
09:21And the bones of an artist will live forever,
09:25whilst the prick of a rich man like you shall fade to dust.
09:30And do you know why, Mr. Henry?
09:33Because the rich have no soul.
09:35How does it feel to have contributed nothing of value in this world?
09:47Nothing!
09:48Want to know how I made my money?
09:51I don't care.
09:52You should.
09:54Because it's why you're here.
09:56Is it not?
09:58I pick up the pieces.
10:01Paper, rags, copper, lead, steel.
10:03I'm a junk man.
10:04I'm a middle man.
10:05I'm the glue.
10:07I pick up their crap.
10:08I feed it back into the furnace.
10:09I turn it around.
10:10And I shove it right back down their fucking throats.
10:16And there's an art to that.
10:22That's why you're here, my friend.
10:26My contemporaries, they wanted the biggest business.
10:28The flashiest.
10:29Not me.
10:30I just want to be everywhere.
10:31I want to be everywhere.
10:32I want to be everywhere all at once.
10:33And I am.
10:34I'm everywhere all at once.
10:35In business.
10:36And especially in my home.
10:40I see how she looks at you.
10:43My wife.
10:50Don't make me nervous.
10:51You should never intend to make me nervous.
11:04Or I won't pay you for your painting.
11:07If you do not pay me, I will slit your throat in your sleep.
11:20I will.
11:21I will.
11:22I will.
11:23I will.
11:24I will.
11:25I will.
11:26I will.
11:27I will.
11:29Mr. Henry.
11:31Mr. Henry, sir.
11:32The company has arrived.
11:33The new company.
11:37Okay.
11:38Tell Mrs. Henry where they are.
11:39I mean, it was horrid.
11:40I mean, have you ever seen a man's brains just splayed out across his tiramisu?
11:54Terrible accident.
11:55Terrible accident.
11:58This is no accident.
11:59I mean, God, do you read the papers?
12:01It's just sensationalism at its finest, darling.
12:03Yeah, sensationalism at its finest.
12:05We know that.
12:06No, Harry walked right across the room.
12:09And he just shot him.
12:11In front of the whole ballroom.
12:13It's not that it was a shock to me because I am the first to say that Harry belongs in a ward.
12:19I was his wife, okay?
12:21But it wasn't the craziest part.
12:26Do we need to know?
12:28Do you know what Harry said before he shot him?
12:32In front of everyone?
12:34In front of a room full of status?
12:37You do not need to reenact this, darling.
12:39Harry held the gun out to here.
12:41And he points it at me.
12:44And then he points it back to Stanford and he says,
12:46You ruined her, Stanford.
12:48You ruined her in every which way.
12:53He said that.
12:54He said you ruined her in every which way.
12:57I mean, as if I need the whole city knowing that I had been with Stanford White in every which way.
13:03It wasn't much of a surprise to the city, darling.
13:05You know, he raped me.
13:07It was a raping.
13:08I mean, look, in the conventional sense of the word.
13:11What's the unconventional sense?
13:12I didn't mean to be with him for anything more than just money.
13:15You can even ask mummy.
13:17She was right there in the room when it happened.
13:20Isn't that right, mummy?
13:23She was in?
13:24Yes.
13:25The room.
13:26And I would wake up aching from the waist down every morning.
13:28And so eventually I just thought that...
13:30It's okay. You're safe now.
13:31And you can stay here as long as you like.
13:36What's your name?
13:38Mrs. Henry.
13:40Have you ever been taking up the asshole while you were sleeping, Mrs. Henry?
13:48Have you?
13:49No, ma'am.
13:50We don't sleep in the same bed, Evelyn.
13:53That's a shame.
13:54Apparently not.
13:55No, ma'am.
14:00Why'd you marry him?
14:01If you're not going to sleep with him.
14:03Well, you know, for love.
14:06Anyway, you just, just, just make yourself comfortable.
14:09You know, you can stay as long as you like.
14:12I won't be here long.
14:14Just until they need me for the trial.
14:16You hear they're calling it the crime of the century?
14:20I don't know.
14:21It kind of makes me lead billing.
14:30What?
14:31You don't think I can pull it off?
14:35Pull what off?
14:38I mean, I get a really handsome cash bonus if Harry's acquitted of the charges.
14:46Cash bonus?
14:47Yes.
14:48From whom?
14:50Well, from Harry.
14:51Are you daft?
14:53Is your husband daft?
14:55Darling.
14:57He shot Stanford White in cold blood.
15:00Right in front of you.
15:02I wouldn't get my hopes up for a cash bonus if I were you.
15:06Oh, Mrs. Henry.
15:11This is not murder in cold blood.
15:13This is the crime of the century.
15:19I knew the moment I laid eyes on her that Evelyn Nesbitt was going to be the star she had always dreamt of being.
15:26I also knew it would be for all the wrong reasons.
15:36Service! Service! Service!
15:39They say Harry's to be released in January. I'm not sure.
15:53My husband insisted on a fine dinner for Evelyn and her lobotomized mother that evening.
15:59It was a dinner we could not afford.
16:03And he insisted I join the lot of them.
16:05Eat your fucking shrimp!
16:06Dish.
16:07What is it?
16:08Beef, sir.
16:09I don't see the beef.
16:10Where?
16:11He's sort of viably insane, you know.
16:13A pointless charade if I've ever been a part of one.
16:16I mean, he can't be held accountable for what he did.
16:17That is what the doctors say.
16:18Perhaps your love struck.
16:19Mrs. Henry, how would I know love?
16:20I'm only 16.
16:21Anyone here know a chap by the name of Mark Twain?
16:22You know, I'm to be fit for a new wardrobe before the trial.
16:33This man, Charles Frederick Worth, is doing it and he is amazing.
16:36Perhaps your love struck.
16:38Mrs. Henry, how would I know love?
16:40I'm only 16.
16:41Anyone here know a chap by the name of Mark Twain?
16:44You know, I'm to be fit for a new wardrobe before the trial.
16:47This man, Charles Frederick Worth, is doing it.
16:49And he is amazing.
16:51Everyone knows a chap by the name of Mark Twain.
16:53Do you know Charles? Not Mark Twain.
16:55What have you got against Americans?
16:56Charles Frederick Worth.
16:57He's a designer.
16:58Wrong.
16:59Oh.
17:00He's an inventor now.
17:01Well, the lawyers have a plan to get Harry off.
17:04Which involves making me some sort of star.
17:09Which, I don't know how I could do that.
17:11He invented the female shoulder strap.
17:14Female shoulder strap.
17:16He's made it adjustable.
17:18Most inventors there are artists.
17:21Most funded innovators are artists.
17:23What kind of star?
17:24I hope you're not using my money to fund his invention.
17:27But I'm preparing myself for the sycophants nonetheless.
17:29That's not how investments work.
17:31Your money's safe with me until the, uh...
17:33Until the appraiser comes.
17:34When will, when will he come?
17:35He's scheduled.
17:36Coming shortly.
17:37Ah.
17:38Enjoy your beef.
17:40Merci.
17:41On the house.
17:42Do you know something?
17:54I do believe this may be the last evening that I'm in a room with the real people.
17:59You know, without ulterior agendas and such.
18:03Oh.
18:04He wants to place his ass with him, or why?
18:13Because he can dance with his snows.
18:16I've never slept in the hall to eat.
18:18Why?
18:19Because I'm a ballerina.
18:20A stupid, stupid girl.
18:21That stupid heck no time.
18:22A vilain, vilain girl.
18:23It's a bitch.
18:24Lily, would you mind going elsewhere with a fit you're throwing?
18:27Or at least give it to us in English so we can be in on it, yeah?
18:30You know what I mean a lot.
18:31This is enough.
18:32I will speak with you.
18:33Don't do anything that might see you on the streets, Lily.
18:36She don't know the missus like we do.
18:41Miss Nesbitt.
18:42Hmm?
18:43What is it you do?
18:45Well, I'm a dancer and a singer.
18:50I'm also an actress.
18:52I was formerly a model, but that's a past life.
18:55You know, with and without team.
18:56Your work.
18:57What is your work?
19:01I...
19:04Well, I'm standing testimony from my husband, Harry.
19:09Huh?
19:10Your question was pointed.
19:11No?
19:13Huh?
19:14I don't appreciate the tone.
19:17Huh?
19:18Huh?
19:20Uh, let us toast to the most meaningful performance
19:28of young Miss Nesbitt's life.
19:32May it be fleeting, uh, immediate, and daring, huh?
19:38It must be the most convincing performance
19:43that the world has ever seen.
19:49Well, I believe I'm simply reading from a script.
19:56But thank you.
19:58The world expects for you to tell the truth.
20:03And they want you to put up a mirror up to the society to speak from the soul.
20:14However uncomfortable that may be, they want to know you.
20:21I, um, I don't believe I know me.
20:32Exactly!
20:33That is art.
20:35The exploration, the searching, a self-loathing.
20:43Mr. Henry, uh, you pay a, uh, a lot of money for the real life.
21:03We, for some of us, we have to live it.
21:10We have to live it.
21:15We have to live it.
21:17Now.
21:18Now.
21:30Bring me my fucking money.
21:48Fucking French.
21:52Am I right?
21:55Yes.
21:57He's been paid.
22:02He wasn't serious about the money bit.
22:06Because he's been paid.
22:09You know, Harry, he used to withhold my allowance
22:15until I let him, you know, lick my inner thighs
22:18while I was chained to the bedpost.
22:24On that illustrious note, I shall retire to my quarters.
22:29Good evening, ladies.
22:32Marian, good evening.
22:39All righty, then.
22:41Oh.
22:44Artist, painters galore.
22:45This just in.
22:46The new gang's in town, and they're called the Impressionists.
22:49Making a ruckus across the pond,
22:51these painters are bucking tradition
22:52and painting outside of the studio.
22:54Cafés, landscapes, ballerinas,
22:57get your Impressionist painting today.
22:59Shipping to America.
23:00Available on the Mauritania.
23:01While room remains.
23:03Why did you lie, Mr. Henry?
23:17I didn't lie.
23:19I don't lie.
23:21You told him that I had been paid.
23:24You told him that it was a silly joke.
23:27Mrs. Henry,
23:28you don't think that they're going to embarrass me
23:33when I get up there for the trial?
23:38Because admittedly, all this talk of truth makes me nervous.
23:46Have you not had the rumors, Monsieur Henry?
23:51I do not take kindly to Swinders.
23:55What the fuck are you talking about?
23:56It's a fucking painer.
24:01Peter, yes.
24:04For you, perhaps, the Grim.
24:07The Grim.
24:08The Grim.
24:13Young woman.
24:26You have done nothing wrong,
24:30and you have nothing to be embarrassed about.
24:34You don't actually believe that, do you?
24:37Help me!
24:38Somebody help me!
24:39Excuse me.
24:40Somebody help me!
24:42Norman!
24:43Norman!
24:44Are you all right?
24:45I'm all right.
24:46Norman!
24:46I think you're all right.
24:49What about?
24:50I think he's some sort of murderer.
24:53I think he's Jack the fucking Ripper, I think.
24:56We just got to give him the money.
24:58Get him out of here, please!
24:59Norman, you just said that you'd already paid him.
25:01I did.
25:02Is that right?
25:03I did.
25:03I did.
25:04Norman.
25:04I said that.
25:06I said that.
25:06I'm sorry I said that.
25:08Shh, shh, shh, shh, Norman.
25:09You have to go back to your room.
25:11You have to go to the safe.
25:12You have to prepare the bills.
25:14We will handle this together.
25:15I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't think,
25:18I don't think we have the bills.
25:23How many do you think you have, Norman?
25:25I don't know.
25:26I don't know.
25:26You don't know.
25:28Well, you had better check.
25:29Norman, you had better check right now
25:31because you commissioned a painting
25:33that has already been completed.
25:35Well, the appraiser hasn't been here.
25:37You'll be happy to have the appraiser.
25:38Fuck the fucking appraiser.
25:39It's a fucking portrait of fucking poodle,
25:41you fucking fuck.
25:44Marion, don't leave me, Marion, please.
25:49Please.
25:56Artis, I know you can hear me.
26:02I certainly know that you are capable
26:04of following instructions.
26:05Don't you dare walk away from me?
26:07You accosted my husband under the Henry roof.
26:10Under the Henry roof.
26:13My husband, your husband, he owes me money.
26:16So what?
26:17Loads of people owe money.
26:21I just, that's no excuse for this kind of degradation.
26:26Look, my husband is a very sensitive man
26:29and he really tries his best.
26:33And I, for one, believe that he has been
26:35misunderstood in this particular instance.
26:38No, no, no.
26:39There's been no misunderstanding.
26:40I am to be paid for the work that I have done,
26:42for the work that has been completed,
26:44for the work that sits in the corner
26:46facing the wall in shame
26:49because it has not been appraised as such.
26:51For fuck's sake,
27:05don't scare me like that.
27:10You don't know what I'm doing.
27:15You don't know.
27:16You don't know what I've been through this evening.
27:23Do not lecture me on the burdens of your life.
27:25I'm sick of hearing about you and catering to you.
27:28You made promises to me first.
27:29Shut up. Shut up.
27:30You made promises. Shut up, shut up.
27:31You made promises to me.
27:36What are you talking about?
27:38You ever pull a stunt like that again
27:41and you will find yourself bludgeoned?
27:44Mm-hmm.
27:46In what sense?
27:48In the physical sense, sir.
27:51I am a trained boxer.
27:56You are a woman.
27:59Yes, I am.
28:01I am a woman.
28:05I expected more from you.
28:07Yeah.
28:09Most do.
28:11Do not treat me like an imbecile up here
28:14and then in the pantry
28:15while the stent run you up for me.
28:17Shut up!
28:17Ah!
28:18Fuck!
28:20You talking about Evelyn Nesbitt?
28:23You think I'd be stupid enough
28:24to sleep with Evelyn Nesbitt?
28:27You see what her husband did to the last one?
28:29You know what I see before me?
28:31What?
28:31I see a failed, miserable, greedy old artist
28:35who's so lost and blind
28:38that he can only follow the scent of money.
28:40And, well, actually, that's absolutely fine by me,
28:46but just don't bring your ideas of truth
28:48and purpose into this house.
28:50That's just dangerous, and it's just, it's bullshit.
28:52You will send me back to Paris
28:55to star in Les Saisons
28:58or a cappella
28:59or I will...
29:01I will...
29:03What?
29:06You will what?
29:07I found you on the streets.
29:15You're nothing more than a pickpocket.
29:20Who can spin?
29:21I'm so sorry, Lily.
29:36I don't want to...
29:38I'm sorry.
29:43I don't want to...
29:45I don't want to...
30:04Oh, my dear, dear girl.
30:34Let us say our prayers.
30:41I'm grateful tonight for our bed and for the food we eat and the clothes we wear.
30:59I'm sorry, Lily.
31:03But really, I am grateful for the stage because one day I will be a great big stage actress and everyone will love me, Mother.
31:20They will all love me.
31:32Look.
31:33Yes?
31:34I don't want any trouble.
31:37My husband is a man of his word and as are the men who vouch for him.
31:42And at this very moment, he's in his room. He's in our safe. He's counting out your bills.
31:49The bills?
31:50Yes, he's counting out your bills. And, uh...
32:06Shit.
32:07He has the bills.
32:16Yes, yes, yes. He has the bills.
32:18I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know.
32:24Well, if we all survive the night, you may just very well be able to claim those bills as your own.
32:31I know, I know, I know.
32:32You may be a man of his hand.
32:33I know.
32:34I know.
32:35I know.
32:36I know.
32:37I know.
32:38I know.
32:39I know.
32:40I know.
32:41That is a great relief.
32:44Lili?
33:00What are you doing?
33:11What are you doing?
33:15Writing my sonata.
33:32Huge relief.
33:33Yes.
34:43We still have this.
36:23at the last Unai Poonot
36:25was in fact
36:27one of the most
36:29acclaimed Impressionists
36:31of all time.
36:33The very same impressionist who would sit shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Renoir, Pizarro, and Monet.
37:00Your head could take up.
37:02Where?
37:15What have they done to you?
37:18The world is cruel to all men.
37:22And yet...
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